Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories.This...
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Author: Collins, Carolyn Strom, Woster, Christy, Montgomery, L. M.Summary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories
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Author: Reich, Robert B.Summary:
In SAVING CAPITALISM, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy in which the one percent get ever richer...
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Author: Khan, Rukhsana, Carbone, Elisa, Krishnaswami, UmaSummary:
In the midst of global turmoil, with people of various faiths in major conflict, three friends—a Muslim, a Christian and a Hindu—decided to write a book. Many Windows is a book about young people...
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We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of...
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Author: Ross, SinclairSummary:
This unique exchange of letters between literary icon Sinclair Ross and several prominent writers, publishers, agents, and editors asks why many Canadian artists, especially those in western...
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Author: Duncan, DorothySummary:
Nothing More Comforting is a reflection of our society: an eclectic mix of many different cultures and traditions. Dorothy Duncan – with her extensive knowledge of heritage foods – has chosen her...
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Author: Gutierrez, KatieSummary:
"Masterful ... Elegance, darkness, even fear are deftly intertwined ... A wonderful read."--LUIS ALBERTO URREA, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken...
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Author: Laviolette, Mary-BethSummary:
David More is one of western Canada's exceptional painters. Based in the rural hamlet of Benalto, near Red Deer Alberta, he is part of a generation of landscape artists who emerged in the 1970s to...
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Author: Hoover, JohnSummary:
Was it a typo when the CEO mandated that the organization “institutionalize incompetents?" If not, how did the company wind up institutionalizing incompetence instead? How to Work for an Idiot is...
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Author: Miniter, RichardSummary:
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, has carried out many of the biggest terrorist plots of the past twenty years, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the...
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Author: Frink, Lisa, Reinhardt, Gregory A., Shepard, Rita S.Summary:
Many Faces of Gender : Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities is an interdisciplinary volume that addresses the dearth in descriptions and analyses of gender roles...
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Many Faces of Gender : Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities is an interdisciplinary volume that addresses the dearth in descriptions and analyses of gender roles...
Genre: Indigenous materials, Social science -
Author: Lucht, Bernie, Ward, Barbara, Underhill, Frank H., Levi-Strauss, Claude, Brandt, Willy, Grant, GeorgeSummary:
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest...
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Author: Marak, Andrae M.Summary:
From Many, One looks at the educational policies and practices of the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles in post-revolutionary Mexico. Andrae Marak examines attempts of the Calles government to...
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Author: Gardner, JamesSummary:
Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of that place and of...